According to Ethnologue, there are a total of 7,159 languages spoken in the world. Asia, obviously, is the most linguistically diverse continent, with about 2,300 languages – about 32.2% of the ...

Ethnologue’s 19th edition, published in 2016, names 7,457 languages of the world and of these 360 are “dead languages”. The remaining 7,097 languages are listed by Ethnologue as “living ...

Today, Ethnologue classifies Tunica as dormant; according to the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe’s website, “There are currently 60 Tunica speakers with proficiency ranging from beginner to intermediate ...

Éditions de la 'EHESS's mission is to raise awareness and disseminate demanding and innovative research among the scientific community and a curious social science audience. In keeping with the ...

2019 is the United Nations' International Year of Indigenous Languages . In 2016, the UN's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues pointed out that "40% of the estimated 6,700 languages spoken around ...

People speak as many as 74 languages in Pakistan, according to Ethnologue, a website on languages. Sixty-six languages are local and eight are foreign, it said. Urdu is Pakistans ...

Ethnologue, a compendium of world languages, states that 28 Philippine languages are in trouble, up from 13 in 2016. Eleven languages are dying, and several are already extinct.